Bihar better than Gujarat: Congress leader Girija Vyas

Nov 20, 2012, 09.34PM ISTTNN[ Himanshu Kaushik ]

AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress leader Girija Vyas said that states like Bihar have developed more than Gujarat.

Vyas said that there are two Gujarat's, chief minister Narendra Modi's Gujarat is full of illusion while the real one is full of hardship and sans development. She went to says that the gross domestic produce during the Congress regime during 1980-94 was between 14-17 per cent while the same during the BJP rule had come down to below 10 per cent.

She said that Gujarat is far from Development and is the same Gujarat what Congress left in 1994. "There is no industrial development, no water for agriculture, in the 11 years of BJP rule the Narmada project has only progressed by 25 per cent. Farmers are committing suicide and there is no mechanism to give loans to farmers. The Centre had taken measures to purchase cotton when the prices fell but the BJP in Gujarat failed to work out any mechanism to help the farmer," Vyas said.

The chief whip said that she has heard a lot about Sujalam Sufalam project, but cannot see any canal network of the project in the state. The money has been siphoned by the BJP and Modi. She went on to say that there were no doctors in the hospital and hence the average life of a Gujarati was much less than that of other Indian. In Gujarat a person average life was only 66 years. She also took a dig at Modi on Malnutrition and said that there was no improvement in the infant mortality rate and even maternal mortality rate was also very high in Gujarat.